NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6530M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6530M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 26W)

AMD Radeon HD 6530M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6530M +500%

0.36 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6530M

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 8M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

400

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.000 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

360.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

26W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Capilano

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Capilano LE

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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